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Chabad-Lubavitch in the Media
Stories and reports that have appeared in the media during the past two weeks
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Israel Buries Victims of Mumbai Attacks
CNN, Tuesday, December 02, 2008 |
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Thousands of mourners and emissaries from the Jewish Chabad movement poured into an Israeli village Tuesday for the funerals of two people killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks. There was a feeling of pain and anger at the funeral in Kfar Chabad, a village of 900 families just outside Tel Aviv. Speeches at the funeral said the gunmen sought out the Chabad House in Mumbai and targeted the victims because of their faith. |
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Local Jewish Community Honors Rabbi, Wife Killed in Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and wife Rivka, 28, were killed in the Chabad Lubavitch offices in the Indian city. Though miles away, the impact of their deaths reaches into South Florida. Rabbi Mendy Muskal, of the Chabad of Wellington, knew Holtzberg and was particularly struck... "The reaction throughout our community is one of a deep loss. The pain is extremely deep, as if we lost a family member." |
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Orphan's Cries Makes for Wrenching Memorial Service for Brooklyn Rabbi and Wife Murdered in Mumbai
Daily News - NY, Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Moshe's heartbreaking wail echoed through the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in Mumbai, where hundreds mourned the boy's parents, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28. Rivkah's father, Shimon Rosenberg, wept as he delivered the eulogy and read from the Book of Job: "The Lord giveth. The Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." |
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L.A. Chabad Mourns Couple Slain in Mumbai
Los Angeles Times - CA, Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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About 1,000 people attended a memorial at the West Coast headquarters of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad organization in Westwood, closing a stretch of Gayley Avenue as they paid tribute to Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife, Rivkah, and vowed to remain steadfast in the face of the attacks. Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, executive director of West Coast Chabad Lubavitch, addressed his remarks directly to the terrorists, saying, "You thought you would do us in, but . . . we the Jewish people, we who believe in light . . . we shall continue." |
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Chabad Honors Pair Slain in India
Ventura County Star – CA, Monday, December 01, 2008 |
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Turn pain into growth and darkness into light. That was the message Sunday during a memorial and prayer service organized by the Chabad centers in Ventura, Oxnard and Camarillo for Rabbi Gavriel Noach and Rivkah Holtzberg, who were killed Thursday along with three other hostages at the Chabad house in Mumbai, India, during the terrorist attacks there... Memorial services for the couple have been held at Chabad centers all over the world, including one at Chabad of the Conejo in Agoura Hills on Sunday... "It was the address of every Jew passing through India," Latowicz said. "They were our best, and as it turns out, they were our bravest." |
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Local Response to Mumbai Terror
Fox 30 - FL, Sunday, November 30, 2008 |
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Rabbi Shmuel Novack from Chabad of Southside is a member of the same organization as the rabbi and his wife who were killed. He says even though they are a large organization there is a closeness among all of them. "Every time you here about a terror attack you feel bad and it hurts you. But when it's somebody you're acquainted with the pain is that much stronger" said Rabbi Shmuel... Southside of Chabad will start a torah study this week on how to deal with terror. They’ll also start a charity to rebuild the Chabad house in Mumbai and fund to help the children rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and his wife Rivkah Holzberg left behind. |
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Oxnard Rabbi Friends with Victim of Attack
Ventura County Star - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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The deaths of a rabbi and his wife at a Jewish center during the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, hit close to home for Rabbi Dov Muchnik of Chabad of Oxnard. Muchnik grew up with Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg in New York. They attended the same rabbinical college, Ohlei Torah, where at one point they sat next to each other... "This is a huge tragedy," Muchnik said Friday. "We're talking about an innocent couple that were out there not for business or pleasure but to give their lives to others. It's so hard to believe that I'm talking to you about them in the past tense. It's really shocking." |
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Chabad Mourns its Loss
Los Angeles Times - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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When news finally came, it reduced the religious leaders in this close-knit community to tears: Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28, formerly of the Crown Heights section of New York, were killed, along with three other hostages... "It's a blur," said Cunin, who was among half a dozen called to the Westwood home of his father, Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, executive director of West Coast Chabad Lubavitch, about 4 p.m. Wednesday after news of the Mumbai attacks broke. The younger Cunin and others have worked tirelessly in recent days to help the Holtzberg family, contacting friends around the world. |
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An Idea Lost on Fanatics
Los Angeles Times - CA, Saturday, November 29, 2008 |
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Finally, there's the particular tragedy incorporated in the murder of the young American rabbi, Gavriel Holtzberg, his Israeli wife, Rivka, and four others, including a rabbinical colleague. Because we are a people of both faith -- peacefully expressed in many creeds -- and the future, there is something in the American conscience that recoils with a special horror when violence is done to clergy and the young... They could not have found a more confounding target for their hatred of Jews than one of the thousands of houses around the world operated by the Chabad Lubavitch movement for which Holtzberg and his wife served as emissaries. |
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Local Jewish Community Reacts to India's Attack
ABC 13 - TX, Friday, November 28, 2008 |
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The Orthodox Jewish Community here in Houston is mourning the couple's death but says this won't end their mission... "There are no words that can deliver comfort to someone. A person needs to grieve and I think that's where the community is right now. We're in a moment of grieving," said Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff with the Lubavitch Center. |
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Chabad’s Happy Warriors Don’t Surrender
The Jewish Week - NY, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 |
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I never met Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg or Rebbetzin Rivkah Holtzberg, martyrs of the Mumbai massacre, but I met more than a thousand of their spiritual brothers and sisters, the shluchim and shluchot, the rebbe’s emissaries, and here’s what they always told me when the situation was darkest. Chabad doesn’t quit... Chabad did what they had to do when the rebbe died and they’ll do the same now... Chabad will not abandon Mumbai. The Holtzbergs, never to be forgotten, will be replaced in the trenches, as soldiers always will. |
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Pictures of the Day: Rabbis Unite
The Wall Street Journal - NY, Monday, November 24, 2008 |
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Rabbis posed for a group picture Sunday at the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York. More than 3,000 rabbis from 72 countries attended the event. |
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הכינוס השנתי של פעילי חב"ד: בסימן המשבר הכלכלי
Haaretz - Israel, Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
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שלושת אלפים פעילי תנועת חב"ד בעולם מתכנסים הערב בניו יורק למיפגש השנתי שלהם המתקיים ברציפות זו השנה ה-25. הפעילים, שבעגה המיוחדת של חסידות ליובביץ נקראים "שלוחים", הגיעו לכנס מ-72 ארצות בהן: סין, וייטנאם, תאילנד, קונגו וסיביר. קבוצה גדולה של שלוחים הגיעה גם מישראל. הכנס מתקיים הערב באולם הנוסעים הענק של מסוף מזח 94 במנהטן - מקום הנושא משמעות סמלית מיוחדת לחסידות ליובביץ. ב-1940 ירד מאנייה שעגנה במזח זה, רבי יוסף יצחק שניאורסון שהצליח להימלט מפולין הכבושה בידי הנאצים. |
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Prague's Jewish Revival
Ynet - Israel, Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
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The institute is the brainchild of Rabbi Manis Barash, Chabad's emissary in the city. "Everybody knows the story about the Golem from Prague and have heard of the Maharal, but not everybody is familiar with his teachings and writings," Barash explained. "For many years now we've been thinking about establishing an institute that would bring back to life the Maharal and the other great Torah scholars who lived and worked in Prague. "This year, in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Maharal's death, we finally realized this idea." |
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3,000 Rabbis from 72 Countries at International Conference
Reuters, Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
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Rabbis from the Judaism's Chabad-Lubavitch movement pose for a group photo in New York November 23, 2008. More than 3,000 rabbis from 72 countries are meeting at an annual international conference of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries. |
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Using Break for Service
The Hullabaloo Online - LA, Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Tulane students will have many opportunities to participate in alternative winter break programs this year. One such program, sponsored by Chabad through a partnership with the Jewish National Fund, allows students to travel to Israel for a week and a half to volunteer... According to Chabad Rabbi Yochanan Rivkin, they ran one of the first Alternative Winter Break programs in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Since then, Chabad has partnered with the Jewish National Fund to send volunteers to distressed communities around the world, from Argentina to Israel. |
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Chabad’s Towson Debut
Baltimore Jewish Times - MA, Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Last July, Rabbi Mendy and Sheiny Rivkin took posts as the new Chabad shluchim, or emissaries, at Towson University. Their goal, they say, is to give students “whatever Judaism we can.” ...Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Maryland, said the decision to find a Chabad couple for Towson came as the university’s population grew... “We felt at this point it was justified to have a Chabad presence,” said Rabbi Kaplan. |
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Rabbis Pray at the Gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Reuters, Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Rabbis pray at the gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.Schneerson, in the Queens borough of New York, November 21, 2008. Schneerson, one of the best-known leaders in the Jewish world, was the seventh and last Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Nearly 3,000 rabbis from around the world are in New York for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. |
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Rabbis Gather At Jewish Leader's Grave
NY 1, Friday, November 21, 2008 |
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Thousands of rabbis from around the world gathered in New York Friday to remember their spiritual leader.
The 3,000 emissaries held their 25th Conference at Manhattan's Pier 94, the site where their spiritual leader Grand Rebbe Menachem Schneerson arrived from Europe nearly 70 years ago. |
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Join Chabad of Toledo on Dec. 21
Fremont News Messenger - OH, Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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The community is invited to join Chabad of Toledo for a celebration of Chanukah beginning at sunset Dec. 21 at Westfield Franklin Park. Rabbi Shemtov will lead the ceremony in the Food Court as the Menorah is lit. In addition to lighting the Menorah, the festivities will include traditional stories, latkes and the Chanukah Passing of the Torch. |
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Local Rabbi to Speak at International Conference
Thousand Oaks Acorn - CA, Thursday, November 20, 2008 |
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Rabbi Moshe Bryski, executive director of Chabad of the Conejo, will deliver the keynote address at the International Conference of Shluchim, the largest single annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world... Shluchim (emissaries) is another name for the rabbis of Chabad who serve their communities under the precepts of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Today there are more than 3,300 Chabad centers world wide, offering Jewish educational and social services. Bryski's talk will focus on the theme of global unity and solidarity. |
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Fire Bomb at Synagogue Investigated
Des Plaines Times - IL, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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The Jewish congregation of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles, which has a synagogue in unincorporated Des Plaines, is planning to install a security system after a "MacGyver" type fire bomb exploded at its front door, authorities reported. Rabbi Naftoly Hershkovich, co-director of the synagogue, discovered the homemade device the morning of Nov. 9. |
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Synagogue To Install Security After Symbolic Bombing
WBBM 780 - Chicago, IL, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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A northwest suburban Jewish congregation will install a security system at its synagogue after a small bomb exploded at its doorstep earlier this month on the anniversary of a World War II atrocity. The Jewish congregation of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles has a synagogue in unincorporated Des Plaines, which was the target of a “MacGyver” type fire bomb, authorities reported. Rabbi Naftoly Hershkovich, co-director of the synagogue, discovered the homemade device the morning of Sunday, Nov. 9. |
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Friendship Circle of Bergen County Hosts Second Annual NJ Friendship Walk
Scarlet Scuttlebutt - NJ, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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The Friendship Circle of Bergen County hosted its second annual New Jersey Friendship Walk, a 5K charity walk and community fair... "We are so thankful that this year's event was so successful," said Rabbi Grossbaum, who organized the event as the founder of The Friendship Circle's Bergen County affiliate. "Our walk attracted an even larger turnout than last year, which is proof that our events are helping us to accomplish the goal that we had originally set out to achieve to help the special needs community of Bergen County, one child at a time." |
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Tis the Season for Controversy
Fort Collins Now - CO, Wednesday, November 19, 2008 |
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Rabbi Levi Brackman, director of Judaism in the Foothills, asked the city for permission to erect a menorah on city property at 10th Street and Washington Avenue. He said now that the city has decided against it, he’ll look for a private property owner who might be interested... Gorelik’s request three years ago to erect a menorah near a Christmas tree in Old Town sparked the controversy, which drew national attention to Fort Collins. His 2005 request to have a menorah as part of the city’s holiday display raised concerns from some City Council members who feared adding a menorah to a Christmas tree display would open the floodgates to requests from many other faiths. |
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